3. Stir mixture a few times to coat the apples evenly
with the liquid and spices.

4. Cover cook on low for 12 hours or overnight.

5. Turn off the crockpot and allow the apple mixture to
cool for about an hour. The apples should be very soft and a dark
brown color when they’re ready.

Apple butter ready
to be canned.

1.Use an immersion blender to blend
apple mixture to a smooth consistency. If you don’t have an immersion
blender, you can pour cooled apples and liquid into a blender and blend until
the mixture is completely smooth.

7. Let the apple butter cool completely and then store in
the fridge for up to 2 weeks, freeze for up to 6 months, or can the apple
butter for 10 minutes in a hot water bath.

Making soups from scratch is easier than you think. And the
savings are bigger than you'd expect! read more here

Secrets & Shortcuts of a Country Inn Chef – Yours
free for the asking.I wrote this a few
years ago (my wife and I once owned a popular country inn which had been
featured on PBS).

It’s almost a guarantee that the ONE thing you didn’t
completely plan for (or that you underestimated, in this case) WILL be
that which “gets” you. That’s just the way life is, if you ask me. Fortunately,
here’s seven things the author feels that we, as preppers, tend to
underestimate: “I’m sure we’d all like to think…

You want us to shut up while our country and our
sovereignty and our borders and everything we've ever been and everything we'll
ever be is being destroyed. You got the nerve to call us traitors and call us
conspiracy theorists just because we're informed.

You knowingly lie to your audience and you knowingly try
to keep them from the truth and you try to keep them from learning the serious
peril this nation and this planet is in. All these people do have is hurt.
That's all the New World Order
is. That's all there ever going to be.

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend
against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens
personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and
relationships, and state security.

A new study surveys five methods of data collection by
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and finds that these agencies
not only collect massive amounts of innocent Americans’ data, but can share and
store this data for up to seventy-five years or more, creating opportunities
for abuse and clogging government databases.

In its efforts to gather more intelligence, and overcome
obstacles to this effort, the National Security Agency (NSA) has repeatedly
tried to develop attacks against people using Tor, a software tool designed to protect
online anonymity – and which is primarily funded and promoted by the U.S.
government itself to help political activists, whistleblowers, militaries, and
law enforcement. The NSA’s determined effort to crack Tor raises questions
about whether the agency, deliberately or inadvertently, acted against Internet
users in the United States when attacking Tor. One of the main functions of Tor
is to hide the country of all of its users, meaning any attack could be hitting
members of Tor's large U.S. user base.

There are lots of ways to carry extra ammunition in a discreet manner.

By Massad Ayoob

Autoloader Mags

The spare magazine is relatively flat and, in my experience, is best carried in
a belt pouch on the side of the body opposite the holster. Vertical carry is
best for concealment and fastest for access, and reloading will be more
positive if each magazine is carried with the bullet noses forward.

For concealed carry, I don't see any need at all for a flapped mag pouch. It
slows down access, and the extra flap of leather or nylon adds unnecessary bulk
and bulge. Just make sure you have a good, friction-tight fit and you'll have
all the security you need, with maximum speed and access.

Most
of us carry the mag pouch just behind the left hip if we're right-handed, vice
versa if we're southpaws. With an open-front concealment garment, such as a
vest or a sport coat or an unbuttoned sport shirt, this minimizes the
likelihood of the magazine becoming visible. Too, weight on the corresponding
point at the opposite side of the body seems to "balance" the weight
of the holstered pistol and increase overall body comfort once you are used to
the presence of the object.

This
principle is one thing that made Richard Gallagher's concept of the Original
Jackass Shoulder System, the forerunner of his Galco brand, so famously popular
and so widely imitated. The weight of the gun hung suspended in one armpit,
with the weight of the two magazines (and perhaps also handcuffs), under the
other. Another advantage, of course, was that the user's critical gear was all
on one harness that he could be quickly throw on if a danger call took him from
the Condition White of total relaxation to the brighter colors of "sudden
call to arms."

A number of the people have gone with the currently popular AIWB
(appendix/inside-the-waistband) carry, which places the holstered pistol on the
dominant-hand side of their navel. Those who carry the pistol like this will
often place the spare magazine pouch at a corresponding point on the other side
of the navel. Again, it's a matter of "balance," and also keys in a
little bit with the hands reaching to corresponding parts of the body during
crisis, assuming that practice and training have drilled in the game plan well.

Some people carry their spare magazines in their pockets. I did so when I was
very young and discovered that a generic eyeglass case with pocket clip that
cost 29 cents at Woolworth's would hold a 1911 magazine in a trouser pocket
without revealing its shape (though I needed a folded-up matchbook cover or two
in the bottom of it to get the magazine up high enough in the pouch that I
could retrieve it). By the time I hit my twenties, though, decent, concealable
magazine pouches were available and I could afford to buy them.

There are a few pocket magazine carriers available, but none are as fast to
access as simply reaching under the same garment that concealed the pistol and
snatching one out of a belt-mounted pouch. In ordinary clothing, a magazine
will make a coat pocket or cardigan sweater pocket sag a bit. Many dedicated
gun concealment vests have elastic pockets to hold magazines upright. They
conceal the shape well, but they tend to sag a bit. If the elastic is tight,
the garment tends to rise with the magazine you're pulling on,

This
writer wears BDU pants as default casual wear, and when carrying a mag in a
pocket prefers the dedicated "magazine pocket," also known as
"cell phone pocket," on the non-dominant hand side. With just the
magazine in there, it tends to shift around a little bit. However, I discovered
that if I put a compact, high-intensity flashlight with a pocket clip in the
front of that pocket/pouch and the pistol magazine behind it, it conceals like
a charm and the flashlight in front holds the magazine in a vertical position
that does not shift appreciably.

When concealment is the highest priority and the wearer is dressed lightly, as
with an un-tucked polo shirt or t-shirt (one size larger than normal, remember,
with straight drape instead of waist taper!), an inside-the-waistband magazine
carrier will be just as much more concealable as an inside-the-waistband gun
holster

How
Many Spare Mags to Carry?

It depends. I've met cops who carry four double-stack magazines when on duty.
My department issues a single-stack .45 auto, and when I'm in uniform I carry
three to four spare eight-round magazines on the duty belt. On my own time, I
carry two spare magazines for a single-stack pistol and at least one for a
double-stack. I also normally carry a backup handgun, and on patrol I have a
.223 semi-automatic rifle with multiple magazines and a shotgun with an ample
supply of shells on board in the vehicle. Our military personnel in combat
zones, of course, carry more-and those who don't really believe they'll ever
need to fire their defensive firearm, carry less.

Massad Ayoob is the Director of Massad Ayoob Group and a
prolific author. His works include the Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry,
Gun Digest Book of SIG-Sauer, Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery
and Massad Ayoob's Greatest Handguns of the World.

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